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It's taken three years, but finally we have the protest CD filled with the scorn, outrage and cry for justice that we have been waiting for: Neil Young's "Living with War."

Perhaps only someone with Neil Young's legendary musical pedigree has the artistic clout to get an album like this distributed. Whatever the reason, it's a CD that smashes through the lying and fantasy of the D.C. press corps and Karl Rove creation known as Bushworld.

If you think you have been watching a parallel universe of treason and incompetence unfold for six years, "Living with War" is the album for you, because -- well -- you have been living with war and a failed, mendacious government.

Neil Young feels so strongly about getting his anti-Bushworld music out, the album can be heard for free at: http://www.hyfntrak.com/neilyoung2/AFF23358/.

The song titles say it all: 1. After the Garden 2. Living With War 3. The Restless Consumer 4. Shock and Awe 5. Families 6. Flags of Freedom 7. Let's Impeach the President 8. Lookin' for a Leader 9. Roger and Out 10. America the Beautiful.

Of course, much attention has been drawn to song number seven, "Impeach the President," as it should be:

"let's impeach the president for lyin
misleading our country into WAR
abusing all the power that we gave him
and shipping all our money out the door

who's the man who hired all the criminals
the white house shadows who hide behind closed doors
and bend the facts to fit with their new story
of why we have to send our men to war

let's impeach the president for spyin
on citizens inside their own homes
breaking ev'ry law in the country
by tapping our computers and telephones"

When you look at what Bush and Cheney have done, they've basically dared Congress to impeach them -- and Congress has shirked its duty.

Neil Young knows the Constitution. He's not a Washington insider concerned about maintaining his comfortable lifestyle of the political status quo in D.C.

Young, in true protest song fashion, is as mad as Hell and felt he had to give a voice to the cry of the human spirit for sanity, honesty, justice, caring and peace:

"And when the dawn breaks I see my fellow man
and on the flat-screen we kill and we're killed again
and when the night falls, I pray for PEACE,
Try to remember PEACE"

Let the disastrous failed Neo-Cons call Young naive. Clearly, the Busheviks have shown us then that being "realistic" and thuggish leads to disaster.

Neil Young. Thank you.

"Living with War" reminds us of what the honesty, immediacy and authenticity of music was like before the mega-corporations homogenized and branded the radio airwaves.

This is a Brittany Spears free zone.

This isn't about tabloid profiteering off of glitzy bubble gum music.

This is about valuing life over the sneering smirk of arrogant, egomaniacal law-breaking "leaders" who know only war, dishonesty, packaging and profiteering.

Yes, we are "Living with War," but Neil Young reminds us that we should not go quietly into the nightmare that they have created for us.

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